Sunday, March 22, 2020

Terrible Internet

Hopefully today will be nice enough to go on a long motorcycle ride with Al.   Under siege from the virus keeping entertained is a chore.  Once irritant is the internet.  Our only access is through the hotspot on the phone.  Verizon does not have the capacity to provide service during peak hours, so if you want have decent service you have to wait until two in the morning.  Kadizzle is going to call Verizon on Monday and suggest if they have half service we pay half.  

Kadizzle may ride up to Nonsuch Rocks with Al.  Over on that mountain we may get off, look at the Indian site, and hike up the slick rock. One problem will be hiking in cycling gear.  It can be done, but no real comfortable.  

The whole virus thing makes one wonder about if people will come out of this thinking differently.  The NYT says how pollution in big cities has gone way down.  Can we learn from this?  Since the subject is learning Kadizzle might recommend a book he is listening to on the Google.  Sapiens tells the story of human evolution from some interesting perspectives.  Kadizzle rarely has the patience to plow through a book, but this one has got him going.  In the time of the plague nothing could be better than a half decent book.  Another reading blessing has been the magazine The Economist.  Kadizzle took them up on some cheap offer and now can read some good articles.  The Economist goes into the virus in great detail and explains exactly how the virus operates.  

Another interesting educational thing was in the NYT today.  They have a neat visual of how the virus spreads.  It seems they tracked the spread with peoples cell phones.  Your cell phone is following you around, and so can the government by tapping into it.  Kadizzle checked on Google his travel history via the internet and cell phone and was amazed how well big brother can track you for years back.  Kadizzle found he had gone places that totally slipped his memory.  The day is a little overcase and off to a slow start.  Stay well my friend. 

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